Article: Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.(Book review)

Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria. By Hyun Ok Park. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xix, 314. $23.95.)

Drawing on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese sources, the author of this study provides an insight into an important, but little understood, chapter of modern East Asian history. Rich in agricultural and mineral resources and relatively sparsely populated, Manchuria in the first half of the twentieth century was seen by Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans as a promising frontier. The author focuses primarily on the settlement of Manchuria by Korean emigrants in the years before and after ...

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